Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -- torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Beecher, Henry Ward

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.

Beecher, Henry Ward

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

Sophocles

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Beecher, Henry Ward

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Forgotten is forgiven.

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One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Balzac, Honore De

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Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

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Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

Euripides

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Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

Heine, Heinrich

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We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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No one forgives with more grace and love than a child.

Real Live Preacher

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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive

Harris, Sidney J.

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Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.

Chesterfield, Lord

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If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?

Dolores Huerta

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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Richter, Jean Paul

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Augustine, St.

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My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. [Job 14:17]

Bible

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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Bacon, Francis

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He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

Lauter

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A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Butler, Samuel

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Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

Brown, Les

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Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the whole world, I will greet him with forgiveness equal to it.

Al-massabaih, Mishkat

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To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

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Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Boese, Paul

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You should pardon many things in others, nothing in yourself.

Auson

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Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it

Twain, Mark

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Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Thomas Szasz

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What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Dietrich, Marlene

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Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

Shaw, George Bernard

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God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

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Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.

Confucius

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Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.

Real Live Preacher

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We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Those that do you a very ill deed will never forgive you.

Proverb